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Anyway, me and the family have just
got back from the Altiplano de Granada in southern Spain – in Andalucia, in
fact. It’s a fascinating place, of course, the region of Spain that stretches
from Cadiz over on the Atlantic west coast to Almeria in the east. The
Altiplano de Granada is an arid, high plain in the north-east of the region of
Granada, and about 150km from that city. These high, dry uplands very much
reminded me of the landscapes of the Spaghetti Westerns, of course, a lot of
which were shot a bit further south of where we stayed. We rented a cave-house built in the
hillside above a dusty Andalucian village called Galera. Walking up to where
the unmade and precipitous roads ended, to get a view over the town and,
beyond, the plain, the area revealed itself almost as a Mars-scape, a place of
dust and flattened hills and mountains erupting from the flat terrain. Up above
the cave-houses sat a round, whitewashed building, part Moorish an…